Two Years Is Long Enough

Re:Two Years Is Long Enough by ghaff on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:15AM (#29907461)

"Fairly uniform" is covering a lot of ground. On the other hand, there has been a ton of ink spilled and screaming on Twitter threads over Sweden or Florida versus other countries and states. And very obviously different outcomes in the US/Europe vs. many other areas of the world that aren't China or New Zealand.

But we probably mostly agree. A lot of differences in policies and behaviors (that many have and do feel very strongly about) are probably in the noise relative to other random factors.

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Re:Two Years Is Long Enough by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:15PM (#29909715)

If the developed countries just said "Let it go", the developed world would be a much different spot than we are today. Definitely we would have been at a greater risk of being much worse. I am not unsatisfied with how we've handled it.

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Re:Two Years Is Long Enough by ghaff on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:22PM (#29910806)

I don't really disagree. Even if a lot of it ended up being mostly about pushing back the number of cases until a lot of people got vaccinated. Certainly Australia at the moment sure suggests that you can delay things but it's pretty difficult to delay cases of all degrees of severity indefinitely.

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